Deadpool 2 1st Day Box Office Collection: Marvel’s New Film Opens Superbly Well in India

Three weeks after the Avengers Infinity War, Marvel Studios has offered another keenly-awaited superhero film Deadpool 2. Sequel to the 2016’s highly-applauded Deadpool, the new one has been released on Friday with huge buzz across the globe. As expected, the movie has taken a wonderful opening with a quite positive response.

In India as well, Deadpool 2 has a solid hype among the fans due to the success of its prequel. One of the major reasons behind the immense craze for David Leitch’s this directorial venture is the association of powerhouse Indian actor Ranveer Singh. The actor has lent his voice for the main character in the Hindi version.

Presented by Fox Star India, Ryan Reynolds starrer has received mostly positive reviews from the critics as well as the audience for its crazy story-line and kickass actions. Despite being ‘A’ certified, the film has recorded excellent footfalls across the 2000 screens in India on Friday.

On the opening day, Deadpool 2 opened on a solid note with 30-35% of occupancy. Post noon shows, the second installment of Deadpool franchise witnessed superb growth in multiplexes and raked the business of 11.25 crores nett (14.42 crores gross) at the Indian box office.

With this, it has emerged the fourth highest opener of the year so far and also registered the third highest Hollywood opening of all time in India by dominating Avengers: Age Of Ultron (10.98 crores). As per current trend, Deadpool 2 is expected to take a healthy growth over this weekend.

Along with this, several small-budgeted Hindi offerings- High Jack, Angrezi Mein Kehte Hain & Khajoor Pe Atke have also released at the box office this Friday, but all these become the victims of the adjacent Deadpool 2 and already existing Raazi, Avengers Infinity War & 102 Not Out.